Hood-support for cable-terminals.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN L. GRAUEL, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO TELEPHQNE SPECIALT COMPANY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION 015 NE'W YORK.

HOOD-SUPPORT FOR CABLE-TERMINALS.

Application filed April 9, 1910.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN L. Guiunn, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of h cw York, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Hood-Supports tor (fahie-Terminals, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter desi'firibed and subsei'piently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings. and the reterei'ice characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure l of the drawings is a view partly in side elevation and partly in vertical section of a pole cable terminal provided with my improved hood-support. Fig. 2 a view on an enlarged scale of a broken-away part of the same, showing the dog in position to support the raised hood. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the dog in position to permit the hood to be freely moved up or down. l ig'. l is a horizontal i-ross seetion taken on the broken line 1 4: in Fig. 1.

The connections between the wires of a telephone cable and the line-wires distributed therefrom to various points are commonly made by means of lineduses within a box or iINlCSUl'O which is usually mounted upon a pole. The boxes or incl osures 0t certain kinds or such pole cable terminals are yu'ovided with hoods or covers in the form oi" an inverted can which can be raised to atlj ord access to the within line-fuses and their supports to permit the connections to he made. In devices of this kind the supports for the line-tuses are located one above another tosuch height as may be desired, and it; has heretofore been necessary in order to secure access to any of said fuses or fusesnpports to either entirely remove the hood, or to raise the same to its uppermost position where it could be supported by springcatches in some types of terminal.

The principal object of the present invention is to support such a hood in. any desired position wholly or partly raised.

Referring to the drawings wherein the invention is shown in preferred form, 1, is the base-plate adapted to be mounted by means of an integral bracket, 2, upon a tele- Specification of Letters Patent.

Similar characters reler to Patented Jan. 1'7, 1911. Serial No. 554,340.

phone pole not shown, and, 3, the topplate cornice-ted to the base-plate by means of the uprights, 4C and 5, upon which are mounted one above another the lin :THSQ supports, (3, carrying the lii'ie-fuses 7. Said fuse -supports and fuses may be of any known form, and the capacity of the terniinal may he varied to accommothite the de sired number of fuse-connections.

The hood, preferably made of sheetmetal, as galvanized iron. in the term of an inverted can adapted to be passed down over the top-plate, Z3, and to rest upon the base-plate 1.

In carrying out my invention 1 provide a pair oi vertical guide-rods, 9, connected at their lower ends to the base-plate, l, and at their upper ends to the top-plate, 3, and located diametrically opposite each other and adapted to be engaged by the respective dogs, 10, inserted loosely through apertures in the body of the hood, and severally pro vided with a restricted passageway, 15, for one of the rods, 9, and but slightly larger than said rod, whereby when said dog occupies a position oblique to a horizontal plane, it will be caused to bind upon saidrod, 9; but, when said dog occupies ahorizontal position, it can be made to slide freely along said rod. To facilitate mounting the dogs, 10, upon the can-body, I preferably reinforce the canbody at two diametrically opposite points by means of a metal plate, 11, connected by integral rivets with the sheet metal wall of the can-body, said plate and can-wall being apertured to permit the dog to pass therethrough. The outer ends of the dogs, 10, form lifting handles, 12, and each dog is formed with laterally projecting shoulders, 14, adapted to engage the plate, 11, on opposite sides of the aperture therein, said shoulders being located at such a limited distance from the passageway, 15, for the rod, 9, that the can-body is drawn slightly inward and held under tension. Each dog is also formed with a shoulder, 13, adapted to engage the plate, 11, just above the aperture therein to so limit the upward movement of the handle, 12, of the dog that the dog cannot be raised beyond a substantially horizontal position. The handle, 12, also serves as a weight, tending to depress the outer end of the dog and cause it to bind upon the rod 9.

As thus constructed, the hood, 8, can be :t'reely raised to expose all or any desired lower part of, the fuse-supports, and will be automatically supported in such raised position by the binding of the dogs upon the rods 9. To lower the hood it is necessary merely to grasp the handles, 12, of the dogs, and by a lifting movement thereupon cause the dogs to assume a substantially horizontal position, whereupon the dogs can be held in such position, and the hood, 8, forced down alone the rods, 9, partly or wholly to its seat upon the base-plate 1. The shoulders, 11', are rounded, as shown in Fig. 2, to permit the dog to be rocked from an oblique to a horizontal position.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. In a device of the class described, and in combination, a movable sheet-metal hood; a rod supported parallel with the line of movement of the hood and a hood-supportin dog mounted upon the hood provided with a restricted passageway for said rod,

and having a shoulder engageable with the body of the hood to hold the same under tension.

2. In a device of the class described, and in combination, a vertically movable sheetnietal hood; a pair of vertically supported rods inclosed by the hood; and a pair of dogs mounted upon the hood, each having a restricted passageway for one of said rods, each engageable with the body of the hood to hold the same under tension said dogs having handles projecting exteriorly of the hood.

3. In a device of the class described, and in combination, a vertically movable sheetnietal hood; a vertically supported rod inclosed by the hood; a reinforce-plate attached to the hood-body; a dog projecting loosely through a .aperture in said reint'orce-plate and hood-body, and provided with a restricted passageway for said rod; a shoulder on said dog eue'ageable with the outer side of said reinforce-plate at one side of the aperture therein, whereby the body of the hood is held under tension; a lifting handle on the outer end of said dog; and a shoulder on the dog engageable with said reinforce-plate to limit the upward movement of the dog when the same is raised to a substantially horizontal position.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set .my hand this 25th day of February, 1910.

EDWIN L. GRAUEL.

\Vitnesses:

Vii. C. COLBURN, V. J. German. 

